Portrait of Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Ha Jin’s most recent books are the novels The Boat Rocker (2016), A Map of Betrayal (2014), and Nanjing Requiem (2011). His writing first appeared in AGNI when he was a graduate student at Brandeis University. He has since published eight novels, six collections of poetry, four short story collections, and one book of essays. His novel Waiting (1999), based on his experiences during five years in the Red Army, won the National Book Award and the PEN/ Faulkner Award. He received the PEN/Hemingway Award for his first story collection, Ocean of Words (1996), and the Flannery O’Connor Prize for his second, Under the Red Flag (1997). In 2005 he received a second PEN/ Faulkner for War Trash and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the director of the Creating Writing Program at Boston University and a member of AGNI’s Advisory Board. (updated 5/2018)

Ha Jin’s story “My Best Soldier,” first published in AGNI 33, was reprinted in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Short Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize.

Read “On Language and Embracing Failure as a Writer: An Interview with Ha Jin” by Jessica Keener.

AGNI has published the following work:

ALIVE

Fiction by Ha Jin

My Mother Also Ate

Poetry by Ha Jin

On a Pottery Figure of a Storyteller from the Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 25-220)

Poetry by Ha Jin

Dragon Head

Fiction by Ha Jin

My Best Soldier

Fiction by Ha Jin

A Young Worker’s Lament to His Former Girlfriend

Poetry by Ha Jin

Promise

Poetry by Ha Jin

A Thirteen-Year-Old Accuses His Teacher

Poetry by Ha Jin

A Page from a Schoolboy’s Diary

Poetry by Ha Jin

My Knowledge of the Russian Language

Poetry by Ha Jin

On the 20th National Anniversary

Poetry by Ha Jin

A Brother’s Advice

Poetry by Ha Jin

Marching Towards Martyrdom

Poetry by Ha Jin

A Battalion Commander Complains to His Secretary

Poetry by Ha Jin
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